How the ACLU Exposed the State Department Censors

When thousands of diplomatic cables were leaked last year the American Civil Liberties Union saw an opportunity; it requested the same documents from the State Department. What it got (eventually) is pretty much what it wanted - heavily redacted versions of the documents freely available online. Compare the two, the ACLU's Ben Wizner tells Brooke, and you learn a great deal about US government secrecy.